Maybe. The web became popular because third parties, Spyglass and Mosaic, evolved it into something visually appealing early. Competing internet applications didn’t have this except maybe email with its pseudo-standard form display of address fields and subject line.
The goal and intention of the web was always sharing information via hyperlinks such that the collection of links naturally forms its own descriptive metadata. In this regard the web has largely failed with content being relegated to walled gardens. The very first step in this regard was Roy Fielding updating HTTP into a series of methods describing database operations, as opposed to merely transmission or content description, and nobody challenged it. In that regard the advancing malicious actors were early and close to home.
If I were to learn from this and create a competing application I would ensure from the very beginning the technologies are single paradigm, extremely primitive, and fail if extended beyond their isolated area of concern so that malicious third parties are forced to advance transmission and content each in isolation from each other and from the underlying technologies. I would also ensure there is a single convention to describe both content and interaction because absolutely cannot figure out the front end.
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Maybe. The web became popular because third parties, Spyglass and Mosaic, evolved it into something visually appealing early. Competing internet applications didn’t have this except maybe email with its pseudo-standard form display of address fields and subject line.
The goal and intention of the web was always sharing information via hyperlinks such that the collection of links naturally forms its own descriptive metadata. In this regard the web has largely failed with content being relegated to walled gardens. The very first step in this regard was Roy Fielding updating HTTP into a series of methods describing database operations, as opposed to merely transmission or content description, and nobody challenged it. In that regard the advancing malicious actors were early and close to home.
If I were to learn from this and create a competing application I would ensure from the very beginning the technologies are single paradigm, extremely primitive, and fail if extended beyond their isolated area of concern so that malicious third parties are forced to advance transmission and content each in isolation from each other and from the underlying technologies. I would also ensure there is a single convention to describe both content and interaction because absolutely cannot figure out the front end.